Editing Fritz Haarmann (section)

==Military service==
On 12 October 1900, Haarmann was deployed to the [[Alsace|Alsatian]] city of [[Colmar]] to serve in the Number 10 Rifle Battalion. Throughout his service, he earned a reputation among his superiors as an exemplary soldier and excellent [[marksman]], and he would later describe this period of service as being the happiest of his entire life. After collapsing while on exercise with his battalion in October 1901, Haarmann began to suffer dizzy spells and was subsequently hospitalized for over four months. He was later deemed "unsuitable for [military] service and work" and was discharged on 28 July 1902.<ref name="ReferenceI">Monsters of Weimar {{ISBN|1-897743-10-6}} p. 27</ref>

Discharged from the military under medical terms<ref name="ReferenceC">Cannibalism: The Last Taboo! {{ISBN|1-859-58495-0}} p. 111</ref> described as being "probable" [[dementia praecox]],<ref name="ReferenceI"/> Haarmann was awarded a monthly pension of twenty-one [[German gold mark|gold marks]].{{refn|group=n|Haarmann would continue to receive his military pension until his 1924 arrest for murder.<ref name="Real Life Crimes 2650"/>}} He returned to live with Erna in Hanover, briefly working again in his father's cigar factory. However, he soon filed a maintenance lawsuit against his father, citing that he was unable to work due to the ailments noted by the military. Haarmann's father successfully contested the suit, and the charges were dropped. The following year, a violent fight between father and son resulted in Haarmann's father himself unsuccessfully initiating legal proceedings against his son, citing verbal death threats and [[blackmail]] as justification to have his son returned to a mental institution. These charges were dropped due to a lack of [[corroborating evidence]]. Nonetheless, Haarmann was ordered to undertake a psychiatric examination in May 1903. This examination was conducted by a Dr. Andrae, who concluded that, although morally inferior, Haarmann was not mentally unstable.

With financial assistance from his father, Haarmann and his fiancée opened a [[fishmonger]]y. Haarmann himself briefly attempted to work as an insurance salesman before being officially classified as disabled and unable to work<ref name="Monsters of Weimar p. 28">Monsters of Weimar {{ISBN|1-897743-10-6}} p. 28</ref> by the [[10th Army (German Empire)|10th Army]] in 1904. As a result, his monthly pension was slightly increased. The same year, his fiancée, while pregnant with his child, terminated their engagement after he accused her of having an affair with a student. As the fishmongery was registered in her name, Erna simply ordered her fiancé to leave the premises.<ref name="Monsters of Weimar p. 28"/>